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Main Idea and Supporting Details Practice

📝 Worksheet medium ⏱️ 15 minutes 10 problems
Main Idea and Supporting Details Practice
Grade 2 English Language Arts LearnCrux.com
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  • Fill in each blank carefully.
  • Circle or mark the best answer for each multiple-choice question.
  • Match each prompt to the best option before writing your answer.
  • Use the larger space to show your thinking on word problems.
1. Read: "Bees carry pollen from flower to flower. They help plants make seeds and fruit." What is the main idea?
2. A topic is often only one or two __.
3. Which answer is a full main idea instead of just a topic?
4. Read: "Frogs start as eggs, then grow legs and lungs." Which detail supports the main idea that frogs change as they grow?
5. Match the main idea "Recycling helps the Earth" to the best supporting detail.
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6. A supporting detail should match the whole __.
7. Read: "The library has books, computers, and quiet places to read." Which sentence does NOT support the main idea that the library helps people learn?
8. Read: "Owls hunt at night and use sharp hearing to find prey." What is the main idea?
9. Which answer is too small to be the main idea of a whole paragraph?
10. Readers can prove a main idea by pointing to more than one __.
📋 Teacher Answer Key
1. Bees help plants grow
2. words
3. Plants need water and sunlight to grow
4. frogs start as eggs and later grow legs
5. Recycling turns old materials into new products
6. passage
7. The library building is brick
8. owls use special skills to hunt at night
9. One bee landed on a flower
10. detail

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